One Direction – You and I vs. Jonas Brothers – Invisible
One Direction – Little Black Dress vs. Rihanna – Shut Up and Drive
One Direction – Taken vs. Demi Lovato – Skyscraper
One Direction – Back For You vs. Blink 182 – Stay Together For The Kids
One Direction – Story of My Life vs. Mumford and Sons – I Will Wait

Sorry, I saw the title and thought it was a different song. I didn’t have a listen because it was a band I wasn’t quite as familiar with whose song came afterwards. The song I was thinking of, which sounds like those Roxette songs was Troublemaker by Olly Murs, but I would have thought it was by Maroon 5 if I didn’t know otherwise.

Ok… well first of all… All lot of these are inaccurate. Second of all… If One Direction got inspiration from these artists, they put in their credits. That was specifically turned towards The Who. Best Song Ever was inspired by that song, and it was listed in the credits. Third of all… One Direction writes LYRICS and share other parts with professional song writers. SURE! They do have song writers and they wrote a lot of the new album or helped. One Direction is not FULLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MELODIES!!!!!! The management is the problem. When this information isn’t given, it makes the band look like knock offs. THEY’RE NOT!!!! And lastly, if you want to make One Direction look bad… You’ll have to have better than this! These were inaccurate to the MAX!!!!!! Sure, a few had a resemblance. But, you have no idea how many people disagree with these comparisons!!! Back yourself up before putting something on the internet. Plenty of people will argue and THEY WILL ALL WIN based on the comparisons above!

HI! Well, I am simply presenting the information and haven’t made any accusations. With that said, I agree with you – a lot of artists today are not 100% responsible for the writing. But they are putting themselves behind it. If you check out the Dr. Luke posts on the site you’ll see a lot of interesting comparisons of songs that he has produced for some top artists: http://www.thatsongsoundslike.com/tag/lukasz-gottwald/.

It seems One Direction may have ripped off The Clash twice, taking I Fought the Law for You’ve Got that One Thing, but who knows? I have a feeling one day we’ll have a whole song web or something, connecting all music, or mainstream music anyway.

And I Fought the Law is kind of a rewrite of The Clash’s Julie’s Been Working for the Drug Squad (1978). I was thinking of writing a song using all the most popular melodies and maybe riffs, but if that’s already been done before, it defeats the purpose, or does it?

Celebration by Madonna (Jul 2009) also sounds like I’m Not Alone by Calvin Harris (Apr 2009). These ones are tricky because they’re so close, but while it was announced in Mar ’09 Madonna had recorded the song, Calvin Harris’ had already been played on BBC Radio in Jan ’09, having been recorded in Dec 2008, according to Wikipedia.

Sorry, I didn’t realise I Fought the Law was original released by The Crickets, Buddy Holly’s backing band, in 1960, then covered by The Bobby Fuller Four in 1964, before they released another version the following year, which is still 14 years before The Clash did it.

Girl Talk (Gregg Gillis) makes mashups and doesn’t claim to be the original writer. From what I understand he also doesn’t make money directly off these mashup recordings. I also started this site with the intention of not posting credited sampled tracks because, well, the original artist is credited.

Fair enough, I didn’t know anything about Girl Talk. It’s a lot of work for Who Sampled.com. Anyway, this is a good post as not only is there a lot of One Direction songs included which sound like other songs, but with the additions from the comments, it comes to over half of their songs. They may not all be valid and some only seem to concern intros so it seems not all 1D songs are complete rip-offs of other songs.

I get the impression, though, that you don’t feel the need to check out the rest and neither do I. You’ve covered all the ones I’ve heard, so I won’t be left wondering where I’ve heard a song like this or that before and being as I’m not a fan, it would be pretty petty for me to seek out every 1D comparison in order to discredit them. I know some people do that and I suppose I even did to an extent, before I realised how pointless it is; surely the point is whether the music is good or not. Even with someone I do like, one rip-off is enough to tell me if they would do such a thing, only if it’s one of their best songs, it leaves me wondering if they are capable of writing good songs.

You Ruin Me by The Veronicas? The Veronicas’ new album was actually released four days after One Direction’s, but the single was released a while ago, I’m not exactly sure when, but I heard it at a course I was doing in Sep.

I’ve noticed some too, but I’ll understand if you want to wash your hands of One Direction. Don’t drive yourself crazy listening to 1D. I don’t expect you to post all of my additions, but you could put one of mine with links to YouTube videos at the correct times, chart positions for the song that came afterwards and involve artists you are interested in as a higher priority.